Dako: New H&E Solution Delivers World Class Efficiency and Quality
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
Dako, a leading player in the field of advanced staining, launches a new
staining solution for H&E. The pathology laboratories today are facing many
constraining factors; finding and retaining trained laboratory staff is more
difficult, and the need for more efficient and cost effective solutions is
essential. Dako has designed a new H&E solution to meet the needs of the
customer. Today Dako is launching the CoverStainer helping to optimize the
laboratory process and delivering high quality, consistent results.
"At Dako, it all starts out with quality. We have transformed all our knowledge
within IHC and Special Stains into the H&E area. We have done this not just by
focusing on the instrument like many of our competitors do, but we have taken it
one step further and are providing a full solution with reagents and
instrumentation that work together perfectly. First we standardize and then we
automate to secure quality at every step," Lars Holmkvist, Dako's CEO, says. He
continues: "We are trying to help the laboratory with the most efficient means,
so they can control the lab at the highest level of quality, and deliver fast
answers to the patients."
What is H&E staining?
When a patient is confronted with a possible cancer diagnosis, a biopsy is
performed and a tissue specimen is taken. The specimen is tested in a pathology
laboratory, using a process referred to as Hematoxylin and Eosin or H&E
staining. The H&E stain is the first stain in the diagnostic process where a
pathologist confirms or rules out a possible disease. The patient will either be
able to go home with a 'normal' result, or they will be told that more
confirmatory testing is required. A majority of the H&E samples can be
diagnosed immediately. The pathologist can confirm or rule out a cancer
diagnosis.
Prof. Dr. Hermann Herbst at Vivantes in Berlin, Germany has been using the Dako
CoverStainer for four months in their routine operations, shares his findings:
"You want to have a standardized process. At Vivantes we did a test of around
3000 slides, and our measurements show that the Dako CoverStainer saves us about
43% of the time needed in the older procedure. Our previous process required a
lot of attention on the part of the technicians, and this lead to a lot of
variation in the results. Now with the Dako CoverStainer, slides have a
consistent quality, which makes it a lot easier."
The launch of the Dako CoverStainer is part of the Dako strategy to be the
preferred partner to the pathology laboratory. The addition of H&E staining to
the Immunohistochemistry and Special Stains product lines, that Dako has
mastered for more than four decades, allows Dako to become a complete staining
partner.
Facts about the Dako CoverStainer
The Dako CoverStainer is an automated instrument transforming the H&E staining
process by combining the entire process from baking through coverslipping to
determine the patient's first and most critical diagnosis of cancer. The Dako
H&E solution combines the advanced Dako CoverStainer with Dako Ready-to-Use
(RTU) Reagents and a Dako validated pre-optimized staining protocol. The Dako
CoverStainer can process up to 240 H&E slides per hour and the first results in
46 minutes which makes it the fastest in its automated class.
Media contact:
Sofie Kjærsgaard Hansen
Dako
+45 61 79 04 44
[HUG#1441538]
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